About Myself

While having some good view points, I also believe that he had some pointless viewpoints. I completely agree that we are who we are from very little, and that it is just channeled. I believe the core structure of our personality grow, while also picking us some tweaks here and there. The viewpoint that I cannot agree with is what he said about the second myth. He said that we should not focus on our weakness as much. Going on, he to talk about how a primary education student comes home with four A's and an F, and that we shouldn't focus on the F as much. This just came off stupid to me. In a primary education setting, or even a secondary education setting, that F needs to be handled. This is the area of our lives that needs to be the most well rounded. This part of our life is what gets us ready to specialize, which brings me to another stupid thing that he said. He said that we as a culture don't focus on our strengths…….but isn't' that what college is for, specialization? Also, a little side note being he might need to spend a little more time on his weakness, anatomy. Last time I checked humans don't have gizza

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Shannon MacPherson

05/22/2014 2:19pm

Kyle- I agree with you that Buckinghams point of not focusing on our weaknesses doesn't make much sense. Maybe it's the competitiveness in me, but if I am not doing well at something I find ways to improve and fix it. I'm not happy when I have a bad workout and I wouldn't be happy if I had an F in my class. I do think that parents should be happy and praise their child for earning A's and B's, but if they are struggling in a class I think some attention needs to be focused on how to fix that. If the F is ignored then maybe the child will get more F's because they don't think it is a big deal. I always struggled with math, but I didn't ignore it, I got a tutor and tried my hardest to bring my grade up. I think we need to have an even balance of focusing on our strengths and our weaknesses, not just one or the other.